TO AMEND SECTION 22-1-25, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO RAISE THE AGE OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT FROM SEVENTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE TO SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 22-1-25 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 22-1-25.    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9-1-1530 or Section 1-13-80(h)(I)(8), (10), or (12), it shall be is mandatory for a magistrate to retire not later than the end of the fiscal year in which he reaches his seventy-second seventy-fifth birthday. Any magistrate serving in office on the effective date of this section who has attained the age of seventy-two years prior to July 1, 1993, may continue to serve until June 30, 1994."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.